fbpx

Amy Franceschini

Photo: Andrew McKinley

Amy Franceschini

Born in 1970 in Patterson, California Currently lives in San Francisco, California Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who uses various media to encourage formats of exchange and production, frequently in collaboration with other practitioners. An overarching theme in her work is the perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her projects reveal the history and currents of contradictions related to this divide by collectively challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to "hunt" and "gather." Using this as a starting point, she often provides a playful entry point and tools for an audience to gain insight into deeper fields of inquiry — to not only imagine but to participate in and initiate change in the places we live. Amy founded the artists collective and design studio Futurefarmers in 1995 and cofounded Free Soil, an international artists collective in 2004. Futurefarmers' design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist-in-residence program, and research interests. She is currently searching for land to house Futurefarmers and to create a permanent agricultural land trust. Amy's solo and collaborative works have been exhibited domestically and internationally at institutions including the Walker Art Center, ZKM, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Stanford University. She is currently a visiting faculty member at California College of the Arts and at Stanford University. She is the recipient of Artadia, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship, Creative Capital, and SFMOMA SECA awards.